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Please Don’t ‘L’Chaim’ With Them

With 900 students heading to spend Shabbos in Crown Heights, one Shliach asks residents: Please don't share alcohol or "unwarranted instructions." Full Story

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alcohol
November 11, 2011 4:43 am

I think it is a very valid point. One see so much abuse of alcohol among the youth. We had some of my son’s friends over from the yeshiva and half of them were to drunk to make it back to shul. They even brought their own alcohol.

get real
November 10, 2011 10:36 pm

you dont expect to bring 900 students to ch and that no one should 1. tell them what to do or not do 2. no one should offer them alcohol. l’daavoneinu, this is not CH. Go to Flatbush better or Morristown.

To 21 29 & 31
November 9, 2011 10:03 pm

I havent laughed this much in long time. Thank you

One word:
November 9, 2011 7:16 pm

Harmony!

Harmony. Harmony. Harmony.

Lubavitch City of Love!

#21's a lightweight
November 9, 2011 4:53 pm

I invite many guests to my Shabbos meals. If the guests don’t agree to wholeheartedly say Yechi with me and wife and children we bill them. And where in NY can you get a three course meal, plus wine, tea & dessert for less than $75?

to #21
November 9, 2011 2:50 pm

lolol, good sense of humor you have 🙂

to 21
November 9, 2011 2:29 pm

My copy of hilchos Yechi does not require that many repetitions of it. As a matter of fact, it states that you cannot recite Yechi during Sholom Aleichem unless you also recite Na, Nach, Nachma Nachman meSchlockman four times for every three Yechis. In other words, I seriously hope that you are joking.

Eruv
November 9, 2011 12:59 pm

This is a perfect example of why I feel CH needs an Eruv. Even if Lubavitchers (lite or not-lite) don’t hold by it, it would prevent at least one malicha from happening. Better yet, why not put up a Rambam Eruv??

to #21
November 9, 2011 12:37 pm

you need to get your head examined and keep your crazy thoughts to yourself

To #21
November 9, 2011 12:14 pm

Are you for real or just a ‘wind up’? As u say it’s the ‘final’ mission. Let them see the beauty of yiddishkeit and start at the beginning first. I wish all our wonderful campus shlichim every Hazlocho. Their shlichus is possibly the most difficult and they need our support (including financial).

Baal Shem Tov
November 9, 2011 11:29 am

Just act like the Baal Shem Tov’s father did with HIS guest. Not so by-the-way, you may have the same results.

seriously
November 9, 2011 11:28 am

Please stop all the silly comments and sarcasm between all of you. This letter was written in good faith and only wants our Chevra to be aware of some things to make the College students weekend a great memory for them. Other people (including college students of our campuses) read this forum. If you don’t have something positive to say….don’t say it! Thank you to all of you who are hosting the students for meals and staying over at your homes. We greatly appreciate it! Looking forward to an amazing Shabbos!

Here I am to correct everyone
November 9, 2011 10:51 am

Something wobbly there in house number 21. Also, theres a principle ‘chamira sakanta maisura’: that dangerous things are more stringent than forbidden things. For that reason, we do not eat fish and meat although it is nowhere mentioned in the gemara. The import of this is completely missed.

Boruch N. Hoffinger BS"D
November 9, 2011 10:44 am

# 21 ‘Right On!’
Very good article.
Keep up the great work.

What about Yechi!!
November 9, 2011 10:26 am

I plan on introducing these students to the “Final Mission” of saying Yechi. In my home, Yechi is a major part of the Friday night meal. The Sholom Aleichem has three parts and Yechi is sung between each part. In mid-kiddush at “savri moronon” we say Yechi and expect a response. Even after washing, while waiting for Hamotzie we hum Yechi and announce it after the Hamotzi. During Bentching, after each brocha we add Yechi, and in the Haachams we sing it! I think this is a great opportunity to spread the message to the “outside” that a major part… Read more »

smoking
November 9, 2011 9:53 am

did several of our holy rabbaim not smoke

its clearly not the same as illegal underage drinking

to #16
November 9, 2011 9:02 am

Please detail fully as to where about in shulchan orach it says no smoking? and stop making yourself sound foolish.
Very nice article !

TO #5
November 9, 2011 8:57 am

LOL!

made my morning

Very appropriate.
November 9, 2011 2:00 am

I urge you to publish this letter on many other chabad sites. Vdal.

To #13
November 9, 2011 12:31 am

First of all what’s wheat and what’s chaff secondly it should be noted that smoking is indeed a chilul hashem and thinking otherwise shows a lack of basic knowledge in shulchan aruch

simcha monica
November 9, 2011 12:07 am

gooooooooooooo

BS''D
November 8, 2011 11:58 pm

GReat great Great! 🙂

to #12
November 8, 2011 11:51 pm

smoking is not a chillul Hashem….it is an unhealthy choice…

let’s separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to chillul Hashem.

A concerned mother
November 8, 2011 11:40 pm

If you yourself smoke please don’t do it in front of the students it creates a huge chillul hashem

Go Rabbi Eli
November 8, 2011 11:39 pm

May you have much success in all of your endeavors!
A tayere talmid, and bochur from Simcha Monica (and the yeshiva).

guests
November 8, 2011 11:11 pm

Stop the bickering between the comments. Just focus on having an inspiring Shabbos for our College Student guests and show us your best !

Hey #4
November 8, 2011 11:07 pm

Take your own advice

Greatest Shaliach on Campus Ever in First Photo
November 8, 2011 11:05 pm

Taka

Aaron
November 8, 2011 10:32 pm

B”D O please preacher # 4 the writer is talking about innocent misguided advice to the kids and pointing out that at their level they are not ready for the advice,(such as not to carry) it as nothing, absolutely nothing to do with a lack of Ahavhas Yisroal, if you can read he makes an emphatic point to emphasize the AY shown by the residents of CH.Since you preach adherence to the Rebbes sichos let me guide you to the Rebbes letter that states ” correct yourself before you begin correcting ( and I might add criticizing ) others”

to #4
November 8, 2011 10:27 pm

Look at things positively

lol
November 8, 2011 10:22 pm

no worrys the chabad lite wont reprimand them if they are smoking.

So Sad!
November 8, 2011 10:00 pm

I think it is so sad that we have to tell the residence of C”H what it means to have Ahavas Yisroel and explain why it may be detrimental to scorn these students! If only they would take the proper lesson out of the Sichos that they claim to live and breathe by.

Mother of a Campus Shliach
November 8, 2011 9:49 pm

We need to pay attention and take heed to the fact that these students are already involved with shluchim who know them and their backgrounds let us open our homes to them and show them the true spirit of chassidic acceptance without challenging their beliefs by our misinformed politics and nareshkeittin.
Mother of a shliach

SO EXCITED!
November 8, 2011 9:36 pm

This will be first time as Crown Heights resident rather than a visiting student… and my journey to Lubavitch started at a Shabbaton just like this one four years ago!! Can’t wait to see it from the other side of the coin!

i like the proactive article!~
November 8, 2011 9:26 pm

thanks for a well written and more importantly PROactive article!!

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